I had the FNA and it was painless. I had no medication beforehand - they
just do an ultrasound while placing the needle in your neck area. You will
feel 'pressure' but no pain.

Good luck with it.



Donna



From: ThyroidDisease2@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:ThyroidDisease2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dottie H
Sent: Wednesday, 26 March 2008 11:57 PM
To: thyroiddisease2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [ThyroidDisease] Thyroid nodules: FNA aspiration




I had a FNA two years ago. They gave me conscious sedation. I slept right
through it. I had no pain. I did have to go to a room and keep an icepack on
it for a couple of hours before they let me go home. I hope this helps.

To: ThyroidDisease2@...
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<mailto:webpoet1%40aol.comDate> : Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:27:17 -0400Subject:
[ThyroidDisease] Thyroid nodules: FNA aspiration

On April 8th, I will be undergoing an ultrasound guided?FNA (fine needle
aspiration) of some thyroid nodules that I have.They will only be doing a
biopsy on one of the nodules: 3 of the 4 are only cysts, and they are not
interested in those: but will be biopsying the one that is "a complex mass
inside a cyst": as that is more likely to be malignant, although the chances
are still low. I have a couple of questions: how painful will it be, really?
Apparently they will not be using anyanesthesia: because sometimes using
anesthesia can cause blood in the results and interfere with reading them.
Will it compare to, say, the pain of a shot? Or worse?And since it is
ultrasound guided: am I going to have a lot of the "choky feeling" thatI had
when they did the original ultrasound? I felt really choky both by lying on
my back,and also from the ultrasound pressing down on my thyroid. Finally,
when do they usually report on the results? Will there be some preliminary
results,or will it take: a couple days? Or a week? Or what? And if I don't
hear back in a couple days is this "good news", meaning that preliminarily
it didn't look malignant? I am feeling very worried about this: because my
partner is a 3 year breast cancer survivor,my mother is a 15 year colon
cancer survivor, and before my DAd passed away at 86 of other causes, he had
had the beginnings of multiple myeloma: a bone cancer (of course, he was a
lifelong hobby photographer at a time when this meant having?a home darkroom
with many chemicals,and was also, by profession, a chemist: so this may have
been environmental).? No genetic link with my partner of course: but still
it reminds me that these things can happen.In the meantime until I find out,
will try to keep positive and realize that cancer is unusual and these
nodules are very common.Laurie[Non-text portions of this message have been
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